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Wednesday, 20 September 2017

Powerful 7.1 earthquake strikes central Mexico, killing at least 149

Mexico earthquake

A powerful 7.1 earthquake rocked central Mexico on Tuesday, collapsing homes and bridges across hundreds of miles, killing at least 149 people and sending thousands more fleeing into the streets screaming in a country still reeling from a deadly temblor that struck less than two weeks ago.

The temblor struck 32 years to the day after another powerful earthquake that killed thousands and devastated large parts of Mexico City — a tragedy that Presidemt Peña Nieto had commemorated earlier in the day.